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Ed Bacon : Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia / Gregory L. Heller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The City in the Twenty-First CenturyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 25 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812244908
  • 9780812207842
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 711.4092
LOC classification:
  • NA9085.B29 ǂb H45 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Planning for a New Deal -- Chapter 2. Toward a Better Philadelphia -- Chapter 3. Planning for People -- Chapter 4. The Architect Planner -- Chapter 5. Reinvesting Downtown -- Chapter 6. The Planner Versus the Automobile -- Chapter 7. Articulating a Vision in a Shifting World -- Chapter 8. New Visions of Philadelphia -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations and Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood development and elevated Philadelphia's image to the level of great world cities. Urban development came with costs, however, and projects that displaced residents and replaced homes with highways did not go uncriticized, nor was every development that Bacon envisioned brought to fruition. Despite these challenges, Bacon oversaw the planning and implementation of dozens of redesigned urban spaces: the restored colonial neighborhood of Society Hill, the new office development of Penn Center, and the transit-oriented shopping center of Market East.Ed Bacon is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. Gregory L. Heller traces the trajectory of Bacon's two-decade tenure as city planning director, which coincided with a transformational period in American planning history. Edmund Bacon is remembered as a larger-than-life personality, but in Heller's detailed account, his successes owed as much to his savvy negotiation of city politics and the pragmatic particulars of his vision. In the present day, as American cities continue to struggle with shrinkage and economic restructuring, Heller's insightful biography reveals an inspiring portrait of determination and a career-long effort to transform planning ideas into reality.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Planning for a New Deal -- Chapter 2. Toward a Better Philadelphia -- Chapter 3. Planning for People -- Chapter 4. The Architect Planner -- Chapter 5. Reinvesting Downtown -- Chapter 6. The Planner Versus the Automobile -- Chapter 7. Articulating a Vision in a Shifting World -- Chapter 8. New Visions of Philadelphia -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations and Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood development and elevated Philadelphia's image to the level of great world cities. Urban development came with costs, however, and projects that displaced residents and replaced homes with highways did not go uncriticized, nor was every development that Bacon envisioned brought to fruition. Despite these challenges, Bacon oversaw the planning and implementation of dozens of redesigned urban spaces: the restored colonial neighborhood of Society Hill, the new office development of Penn Center, and the transit-oriented shopping center of Market East.Ed Bacon is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. Gregory L. Heller traces the trajectory of Bacon's two-decade tenure as city planning director, which coincided with a transformational period in American planning history. Edmund Bacon is remembered as a larger-than-life personality, but in Heller's detailed account, his successes owed as much to his savvy negotiation of city politics and the pragmatic particulars of his vision. In the present day, as American cities continue to struggle with shrinkage and economic restructuring, Heller's insightful biography reveals an inspiring portrait of determination and a career-long effort to transform planning ideas into reality.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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